Authors of science fiction are sometimes unduly credited with predicting giant leaps in sci-tech, but the joy of reading them remains. Technology fiction came to be regarded as a serious literary sub-genre in the mid-20th century. The advent of the earliest computer, Alan Turing’s “Turing Machine,” and advancements in space exploration largely coincided with the works of Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and Robert Heinlein who collectively spawned a new imagination of dystopian futures and alternate realities.
Following are quick reviews of three novels of no particular pattern or common theme, except for fitting the bill of sci/tech-fi in western English fiction. Forget the law for a moment and woo the literary muse.